After taking the entire month of July off, I am officially back at work. It was hard to drag myself out of bed early enough to catch my bus. I have definitely gotten used to sleeping in this past month. I ended up sleeping nearly the entire bus ride to work. Once I arrived, the day kicked into gear as expected. I have hundreds of emails to wade through, which is scary considering I had most email not directly targeted at me auto-deleted while I was out. It ended up being a long day, but all things considered, it went by pretty fast with all the meetings and sync-up I had to do. This entire week will be spent just getting caught up as best I can on everything that has been going on while I was out.
I am grateful that Microsoft provides the benefit of a month paternity leave when you have a child. I was able to spend practically every day with Ciera this last month, which I feel was important bonding time. When Milee was born, I spent so much time away and working that I think it hurt our relationship during her very early years. Kids grow and change so fast that you almost don't dare even blink or you'll miss it.
Sorry for slacking off on the blog updates. Well, I am not too sorry about it actually. I hardly touched a computer this past month. It felt great to unplug.